Senior Social Worker - Mental Health
| Posting date: | 15 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2025 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK4 1QQ |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75696163 |
Summary
Senior Social Worker - Mental Health
SO3, Pay circa £43,693
37 Hours, Full Time
Permanent
Hybrid with expectation to be office based for duty manager and team meetings.
Application Deadline: 4th May 2025 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 6th May 2025
Interview Date:15th May 2025
Interview Type: In Person
Your Role
Our Adult social care Mental health service is looking for an Assistant Team lead who has experience of working with adults in line with the Care Act to promote and enhance their well-being in a busy mental health social work team.
You will provide leadership at an appropriate level to establish and maintain a strength-based culture of teamwork, achievement, accountability, and outcome focused. This includes providing supervision and support to the staff team as well as contributing to the ever-developing service.
About You
We are looking for somebody who:
- Is a qualified and experienced social worker and is registered with social work England.
- Has a post qualifying qualification such as Approved Mental Health professional (AMHP) or Best interest assessor (BIA)
- Is a team player, who has experience and drive in developing and supporting, newly qualified and experienced social workers to achieve the best they can.
- Has good time management and organisation skills.
- Has experience of supervising social workers within a complex mental health social work team.
- Has ambition and creativity, we are a developing service, and we are looking for individuals who can be creative and good at problem solving.
- Has the ability to understand budgets and the impacts.
- Has the experience of working with and managing high levels of risk within an area of service assessing and supporting individuals with complex needs and severe and enduring mental health.
- Is passionate about supporting social workers to meet the best outcomes for the people of Stockport.
About Us
The Adult social care mental health team is a specialist area in which we strive to ensure that individuals who experience severe and enduring mental health conditions are enables and can meet outcomes to suit and benefit their recovery. Our team is based across the Meadows and Baker Street and cover the whole borough of Stockport and out of area when necessary under S117 of the Mental Health Act. We work within the Care Act to support individuals to lead Happier and Healthier lives through wellbeing and prevention agenda. We also look to ensure the safety of individuals under S42 Safeguarding under the Care Act, we do this again with the person at the centre of this, making safeguarding personal. We work collaboratively with our partner agencies, namely the community mental health teams and are committed to the council’s vision off one heart, one mind, one Stockport and work to an ethos of promoting the glorious ordinary lives of our residents.
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Sarah Kerr on 01615130041 sarah.kerr@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme
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